h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

una scopa nuova spazza bene

a new broom sweeps clean

. . . as a periscope sweeps the ocean?


Everything that happens makes the most elegant and transcendent sense in the crazed imagination of the lunatic.

(Inspired by reading Nabokov's 'Pale Fire')

...leading to self-destruction?

(Not sure which bit you refer to)

Dostoevsky was epileptic, and described in 'The Idiot' the feeling of supreme clarity and all's-right-with-the-world just before the onset of a fit.

Last summer I bought a copy of 'The Idiot' having very much enjoyed 'Crime & Punishment' but haven't got round to reading it yet. Thanks for the reminder. It's going in my 52 to read in '007 list!

ps - I wasn't thinking of 'any bit'. Just 'thinking out loud'.

A book a week is not bad.

I got the idea to read at least 52 books and list them on my space from a posting on h2g2.
When I think of all the great books I've read over the years and now can't remember most of them as I didn't bother making a list of them I'm a little bit sad.

I read about four to ten books a year, but they tend to be big ones and I do remember them. A balance could be struck somewhere between us . . .

A book a month is much more manageable. Are we talking fiction or non-fiction here.

Well, In my case I'm talking a fiction/non-fiction ratio of about 4:1 on average.

Rec'Man, Never mind the quality feel the width. Sorry, only joking!
Hope you're keeping a list on your space so I can drop by and see what you're reading as and when.

No, but I'll put in a journal entry.

Good man Rec'man!
By the way, I've just finished Mark Lynas's global warming book High Tide. 'A fearsome picture of the near future' J.G. Ballard says.
Lynas has a blog at www.marklynas.org

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Well done moderators!

Here's the offending quote, cleaned up for your protection:

"What's so great about cocaine?"
"Ahm, it intensifies your personality."
"But what if you're an *******?"

-- Bill Cosby

You've got me there. What does it rhyme with? How many syllables? Animal vegetable or mineral?

Does it matter?

I saw him say this on TV, and the word was bleeped out there too; but his lips were highly legible: ah-oh.

Doctor_Static

To become one with the TAO, you might try to:
Be the Momentum of the Moment; the Inertia of the Interval.

It's nice to be nice - Alien_Pimp